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repo problems with 18
by Frank McCormick 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

Hi I am relatively new to Fedora and to YUM...so I guess that's why I am having these problems I noticed recently that 18 wasn't updating very often..there was little being updated so I went through the repository list in /etc/yum.repos.d and enabled some rawhide repositories that were disabled. Now when I yum check-update and yum update...I get a bunch of dependency errors because yum is trying to pull in fedora 19 files ?? I sort it out by running yum --skip-broken update....but I'd like to fix what I messed up . These are the repos. /etc/yum.repos.d/adobe-linux-i386.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-updates-testing.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-rawhide.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-free-updates-testing.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-rawhide.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing.repo These are the defaults that 18 put in place...but some had been disabled... Can anyone help ? Thanks -- FMcCormick <beacon(a)videotron.ca>

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Draftsight
by Antonio M 13 Jan '13

13 Jan '13

http://www.3ds.com/it/products/draftsight/download-draftsight/ If you get to this page can you see the different options to download??? I am using latest Firefox 17.0.1 Tnx. -- Antonio M Skype: amontag52 Linux Fedora F17 (Beefy Miracle) on Acer 5720 http://lugsaronno.altervista.org http://www.campingmonterosa.com

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Default mailto application on Fedora 17
by Dave Close 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

I'm running Fedora 17 with the KDE desktop. KDE's system settings ("control panel") claims the default mailto application is Kmail. And, since Gnome is still present, I see that it thinks the default mailto application is Evolution. I don't see anything in /etc/alternatives that seems relevant to a mailto handler. Firefox says, "Firefox normally uses your operating system's default mail program to send an e-mail message." <http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-program-used-open-email-links>) But Firefox says the default handler is Thunderbird. Where the hell is Firefox finding that value? And Firefox doesn't offer either of the other two "defaults", Kmail or Evolution, as options (except through the "other program" mechanism). Can anyone explain what's going on? I'd like to change the mailto handler. But I need to pass some arguments to my program and Firefox doesn't offer that ability itself. To get that ability, I need to be able to change the system default so that Firefox recognizes the change. But where is Firefox finding the "default"? -- Dave Close, Compata, Irvine CA +1 714 434 7359 dave(a)compata.com dhclose(a)alumni.caltech.edu "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here." -- Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg, 1863

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Fedora 18 on MacBook Pro
by Sanne Grinovero 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

Hello all, while I don't like OsX and have been "linux power user" for over many years, I was offered a new MacBook pro 15" (non-retina) as an upgrade for the old work laptop (edition summer 2012). Using Fedora as main OS I immediately suspected this choice was not ideal, but the build quality and hardware was tempting so I accepted the offer, well aware I'd have to work a bit to get Fedora running on it. Also very rarely I need to test some things on OsX so being able to dual boot in it sounded like a good idea. By following some guides I installed rEFIt and managed to install Fedora 17 initially, but that was a disaster of workarounds needed to apply as kernel parameters and never got it stable, so I ended up installing beta1 of Fedora 18.. much better: after yum updating to the latest kernel packages I noticed I don't even need dirty tricks such as disabling apic: the system is stable for desktop usage. There are still plenty of problems to solve for "on the road" usage: - if I try to suspend it, it can't resume -> have to cold-restart it. - booting up is extremely slow, rEFIt seems to search for a long time before handing over to Grub - when using out of the box parameters, the battery doesn't give you much more than 30 minutes work time All these combined make it damn hard to "quickly check something". After using powertop I can get it to roughly 1,2 hours, better but clearly something is wrong yet. I'm suspecting the NVIDIA card: if I run lspci it reports a single VGA device from NVIDIA; I'm pretty sure that this laptop has an intel one as well and is supposed to activate NVidia only on demand. I don't actually need dynamic switching, I'd like to disable the Nvidia one and use the Intel one only; I'm not even sure what X is using today: /var/log/Xorg.0.log mentions VESA .. looks strange to me as Gnome3 is succesfully working with all effects. My suspicion is that I'm not booting the system with EFI and the damn thing is emulating the BIOS mode as it would do for Windows installations (through Apple's bootcamp), this might explain why the Intel device is "hidden"? Looking at >top I can also see that gnome-shell is burning a hell of CPU, is that how I'm having the full effects experience while running on VESA? I see gnome-shell using around 50% of *each* of my CPUs. In my experiments I also tried to use nuoveau or the Nvidia proprietary drivers, to see if they could improve either CPU or battery. nouveau: it doesn't seem to load the modules. NVidia: system locks up booting from self-built kernel 3.8.0-rc2 (to try newer nouveau): system boots, Gnome3 shows a useless error "something went wrong, contact your sysadmin".. no clue so I abandoned this path (of course this could have failed for other reasons). As resuming from suspend also fails because the screen doesn't turn on again, I hope all these problems are related. Anyone has a clue please? As I'm suspecting it's using the BIOS emulation (how to check??), I'd like to try booting it as a "real EFI" OS but I have no clue of how that would work, and couldn't find much literature on this subject, at least not suitable for my level of skill.. any pointers appreciated, especially to work with Fedora 18! Thanks in advance, Sanne

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How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC
by Khemara Lyn 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

Dear All, Sorry if this had been covered before. How can I set or get the UUID for a NIC? I have installed new system, initially with a single NIC; now I've added another NIC and would like to create a new UUID to be used in the new network-script file (e.g. ifcfg-em2). I did some searches over Google and found related topics on hard disk partitions only (such as blkid /dev/sda1, ls -l /dev/disk/by_uuid); but none of the them covers the UUID for a NIC. I understand that, we can create a new network-script file without the UUID. However, i'm still curious of how it can be done. Thanks in advance for any help or comment. Regards, Khem

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Re: Important for FUDCon: Airport pickup, RasPi hangout, and games
by Nick Bebout 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

Sorry, I meant to send this direct to rsuehle. nb > I just checked my email today, but I did already have my flight info on > the wiki. > > I do need a ride, my flight arrives Wednesday 1/16 at 19:03. > > Nick > >> One week until FUDCon! My, my, how the time flies. There are a few >> things >> that need your attention before you fly off to the land of Dorothy, >> Toto, >> Clark Kent, and Looper. (Leave your blunderbusses and kryptonite at >> home.) >> >> >> ---------------------------- >> AIRPORT PICKUPS >> ---------------------------- >> >> The airport is about an hour from the hotel. There is Super Shuttle, but >> it's $99. No, that's not a typo. If you would like a ride in our van >> very >> kindly sponsored by Cloudstack, you should email me by the END OF THE >> DAY >> FRIDAY with the time your flight lands. >> >> We'll let you know before you leave where and how to find the vans. >> >> >> ------------------------------------- >> RASPBERRY PI MEETUP >> ------------------------------------- >> >> Thursday evening at 8 p.m., there is a global Raspberry Pi meetup over >> Google Hangout. MAKE is the host and guests are Matt Richardson and >> Shawn >> Wallace, authors of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi. All meetup >> attendees >> will receive a free PDF download of MAKE Magazine Volume 33. The guests >> will talk about the projects featured in that issue and discuss >> everything >> Pi. There's a live chat where you can ask them questions as well as >> share >> your own projects. >> >> We'd like to gather to join the Hangout and then hang out amongst >> ourselves >> talking Pi. Please add your name here if you'd like to join us so that >> we're sure to have enough room: >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Lawrence_2013#Agenda >> >> >> ------------- >> GAMES >> ------------- >> >> Friday night, we've got a space reserved at the hotel for pizza, a >> build-your-own-cupcake bar, and drinks. You can sit around chatting with >> friends, hacking on your hackables, or play awesome board games. >> >> If you're the gaming sort, please add what games you're bringing to the >> list here so we don't get there with six copies of Carcassone and a box >> of >> Uno missing all the wild cards. >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Lawrence_2013#Social_events >> >> >> --------------- >> BOWLING >> --------------- >> >> FUDpub is from 6:30-8:30, but if that's not enough party time for you, >> there's a bowling alley next door. We're happy to reserve lanes, but >> we'd >> like to know that you're interested. If you think you'd like to bowl a >> bit, >> please add your name to that list: >> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FUDCon:Lawrence_2013#Social_events >> >> >> Thanks, and have a beefy and/or spherical day! >> >> Ruth >> -- >> announce mailing list >> announce(a)lists.fedoraproject.org >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/announce > >

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Fedora 18: Install with LVM on RAID 1
by Guido Winkelmann 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

Hi, How can I make the Fedora installer install the OS in Logical Volumes that lie on top of a RAID 1 MD-device? I have some fairly specific ideas about how I want my harddisk space used, which previous versions of Fedora would allow with no problems: sda1 -> /boot sda2 \ -> md0 -> PV -> VG -> various different system LVs sdb2 / sda3 \ -> md1 -> used directly as data partition sdb3 / sda5 -> another data partition sdb5 -> another data partition The parts below md0 are not so important, I can easily add those manually after the system is installed and up and running (provided the installer will graciously leave me some unpartitioned space on my hds - another aspect that seems needlessly hard to control with the new partitioning tool). However, the parts on md0 really need to be supported by the installer itself, because that's where the actual OS is installed, and I just cannot seem to figure out how to make it do it this way. All it ever seems to do is collect all the available unpartitioned hd space on all selected hds and combine it into one large Volume Group... Guido

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Fedora Related (Freemedia) mail
by Frank Murphy 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

A New year, Wearing my freemedia hat. The reason for the mail, We could do with some new volunteers. for the following countries (no particular order): Australia Canada, Japan Bangladesh Sri Lanka Vietnam Latin America (incl Mexico) Various African Countries. Various European Countries. India, is a special case, we can never get enough volunteers for, as it's infrastructure. will take a lot of time to catch up. Check below for guidelines. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FreeMedia?rd=Distribution/FreeMedia You won't get anything out of Freemedia, you won't get much thanks, but you may just be helping the next dev\sysadmin\user. -- Regards, Frank "Still trying to learn, both old and new tricks" --me .

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Very OT Rails 3 enquiry
by Roger 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

Apologies for off topic but I've looked everywhere and don't find answers. Using Fedora 16, latest Ruby and latest Rails. I have been following Pragmatic Agile Web Dev with Rails 4th edition. Have a scaffold person with some fields, it all works ok but I now have a select list in the view and need to include a selection/choice from that select list in the person table. The Select list is generated from another table so that drop down collection selections are not hard coded. After googling and searching Rails sites for hours I have no idea where else to look or who to ask. Can some one please point me where to obtain such info please. Is there a definitive work or set of tuts that show how to use data from other tables, how to use join tables, how data from a number of tables is stored and accessed for presentation in a view. I've joined the Rails forum and Ruby forum but unlike the Linux forums there seems no way to ask questions and get email answers. Help is very much appreciated, thanks in advance. Roger

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fedora on Android phones?
by Timothy Murphy 12 Jan '13

12 Jan '13

Are there any plans for Fedora to follow Ubuntu in developing an alternative OS for Android phones?

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